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09/05/2024
Workshop on Networks and Development - Thank you!

Thank you to all organizers and participants of the Workshop on Network and Development, held in Naples on 6-7 May, 2024!

07/05/2024
LEAP Internship Program - Summer 2024. Apply Now!

The position is open to current Bocconi students. Deadline May, 27th

19/03/2024
Apply now! 23rd Summer School in International and Development Economics
05/03/2024
LEAP-EUDN Conference 2024 - A Great Success

Thank you to the EUDN Conference attendees for a great lineup of Development Economics presentations!  

03/03/2024
Capital Markets, Temporary Migration and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Bangladesh.

The paper "Capital Markets, Temporary Migration and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Bangladesh." by our affiliate Joseph-Simon Goerlach and co-authors has been published in World Development.


 

23/02/2024
Educational Poverty in Italy - Our first LEAP Policy Brief
14/12/2023
New funding at LEAP!

New funding for LEAP Affiliate Erika Deserranno, from UCL Stone - for the project "Remote care for remote areas: the impact of telehealth in rural India"

17/11/2023
Call for papers - 3rd Workshop on Networks and Development

We are pleased to announce the third edition of the Workshop on Networks and Development, that will be held in Naples (Italy) on the 6th and 7th of May 2024.

The deadline for submissions is January 30th 2024.

13/11/2023
LEAP Offers MSc Interns a Taste of What Research Means

Building on the success of the first round, LEAP launches the second edition of the LEAP Internship Program

13/11/2023
New funding at LEAP!

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